[mythtv-users] Question on Capture Card and Sound Card

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/29/2006 02:15 AM, Joel Davis wrote:
> I've been running MythTV with Fedora 5 on an old Dell box (1.7 GHz) 
> using an old Hauppauge WinTV card and a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound 
> card.  I am pretty happy with it but I am thinking about upgrading my 
> hardware a little.  I am considering the Hauppauge PVR-150 or 
> Hauppauge PVR-250.  I haven't been able to see a major difference 
> between the two.  What makes the 250 better than the 150?

It does a better job of keeping your house warm on cold winter nights.  ;)

In reality, the PVR-150 is better than the PVR-250.  It's a 
newer-generation card built from fewer components and built to use 3.3V 
PCI (instead of 5V), so it's cheaper /and/ it takes less power.

Driver support for the PVR-250 is slightly better (although current 
versions of the drivers have narrowed the gap significantly).  I 
wouldn't buy a PVR-250 at this point.  So, my recommendation is to save 
some money and buy the better card (the PVR-150).

> Also, occasionally the sound from my Santa Cruz card sounds very 
> metallic.  I can correct this by exiting MythTV and firing it back up 
> but this is obviously not desirable.  I am thinking about getting a 
> Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 card to replace it.  Have people had 
> luck with this card?

I've used the SB Live! and SB Live! Value.  Both work well (but can be 
configured to give problems :).

Mike